On Dec 11, 2003, at 6:53 AM, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> It omits Syriac and (apparently) Chinese, and lists Japanese three
> times
> (Han "ideographs," hiragana, katakana),

If it lists Han ideographs, then obviously it covers Chinese.

In any event, Unicode has a distinction between written language and
script. The Japanese language is written using three or four scripts.

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